The soviet satellite republics strike me as another real world 1984 dystopia. You can watch whole movies about the terrifyingly real East German Stasi.
The Securitate (The secret service of Romania) would be another equally terrifying example.
Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’
by icebraining on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:11AM
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In the novel itself, Ingsoc is said to be similar to the CPSU. Orwell was drawing direct inspiration from the USSR under Stalin, as well as from other real world events.
Some Chinese are still old enough to remember the Cultural revolution.
During this time people were interrogated for days by their peers in so called 'struggle meetings' in an attempt to change their supposed incorrect behaviour.
Reporting someone as a bourgeois person could cause them to disappear.